Tag Archives: Business Model

Searching Versus Finding

By Shana | Published: June 25, 2010
(Or where we need to go in the future of search) One of the most problematic parts of Google (and in fact, on some very basic level all search engines, including the new Facebook one), is that it’s business model is built on search plus placed advertisments in that search.  At first, this seems very [...]
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May #NYTM The Review!!!

By Shana | Published: May 11, 2010
Image by froboy via Flickr Note: after this point- we’re Moving in with NYU.  See you downtown.   GoodCrush’s RandomDorm (yes I was able to test this)- A) Still isn’t working for me.  Though I may retest, I can’t tell if this is a multi-tab eater thing.  Or it may be a University of Chicago [...]
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Belated Notes on the April 2010 NYTechmeetup

By Shana | Published: April 21, 2010
Image via Wikipedia So why is this so late, you may ask? I didn’t go to the NY Tech Meetup, it was last day of Passover, which in Orthodox circles is kept as Yom Tov.  I stayed at home and took a much needed chill break, considering I’m applying for jobs, blogging, commenting, and handing [...]
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The New York Tech MeetUp- The March Edition

By Shana | Published: March 10, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I know it is late.  I’ve had a humongously amazing, yet busy week. (and I don’t normally talk like that)  I feel so thankful that I am finally really starting to become less shy with people in the NY Tech Community.  Everyone I am meeting has been wonderful.  Y’all are [...]
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

By Shana | Published: August 26, 2009
Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson‘s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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Product Failure, the Position You Never Want to Be in

By Shana | Published: August 17, 2009
So in an effort to understand as much as I can about the InterWebs, I am trying to look at as many products as I can.  While I can’t say I am some mysterious genius of words like “Drupal” or “Ruby on Rails” or “BigTables,”  I can say I have a good gut knowledge of [...]
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The New York Tech MeetUp, The Reviews

By Shana | Published: August 6, 2009
Image by katielips via Flickr I’m Overly Exhausted, and very distracted, so this is very late getting out, but I thought I should do a writeup of the New York Tech Meetup. (this was written over a 24 hour period, so excuse the time wierdness in advance.) It was an interesting experience.  Sitting in the [...]
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The New New Business of News

By Shana | Published: August 2, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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